Media and Society

5. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-557434-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1078 g

The essential text when studying the role and impact of media within contemporary society.
Inclusion of real-life examples and case studies from TV, film, advertisements, photographs, the internet and print publications, from Australia and elsewhere.
Discussion of real issues relevant to today's society, encouraging students to understand and engage with the 'media-world' in which they live.
Clear explanation of complex theories and ideas, such as semiology, discourse, feminism, ethnicity and postmodernism.
Engaging and interactive writing style that is designed to encourage readers to develop their own views.
Focus on media representations of gender, family and ethnicity.

Media and Society examines the role of the media in contemporary society and analyses representations of the world found in advertisements, film, television, photographs and language. It clearly presents theoretical approaches and includes many examples, definitions, issues questions and explanations to aid students' understanding.

Zielgruppe

First and second year media studies or sociology students from Arts, Media, Communications, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Shaughnessy, Michael

Stadler, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Getting Ready: The Media and Media Studies
1: Defining the Media
2: Media Studies
3: What Do the Media Do to Us? Media and Society
4: What's in a Name? Language and the Social Construction of Reality
5: Mediation and Representation
7: New Media and Technological Development
Part 2 Pictures: Semiotic Analysis
8: Semiology
9: Reading Images and Advertisements
10: Model Essay: Semiotic Analysis of an Advertisement
Part 3 Making Sense: Discourse, Ideology, and Hegemony
11: Defining Discourse and Ideology
12: Where Are Discourses and Ideologies Found?
13: Dominant Ideology and Hegemony
14: Culture Jamming and Counter-hegemony
Part 4 Stories: Approaches for Narrative Analysis
15: Genres, Codes, and Conventions
16: The Language of Film: American Beauty
17: Narrative Structure and Binary Oppositions
18: Documentary and Reality TV
19: Why Stories?
Part 5 Media and Identity: Representation, Impact, and Influence
20: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Ideologies of Femininity
21: Ideologies and Discourses of Masculinity
22: Ethnicity, Ideology, and the Media
Part 6 But they Keep Moving the Posts: Postmodern and Global Perspectives
23: Stars and Celebrities
24: Postmodernism
25: Globalisation

Über Autor(innen)

O'Shaughnessy, Michael
Michael O'Shaughnessy taught film and media studies for twenty years in UK and Australian universities.

Stadler, Jane
Jane Stadler is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Queensland.

Michael O'Shaughnessy and Jane Stadler

Michael O'Shaughnessy taught film and media studies for twenty years in UK and Australian universities.

Jane Stadler is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Queensland.